News Articles with Category: Planning and Control
September 17, 2014 – via SeeByte
SeeTrack Professional is an open-architecture platform solution for rapid on-site analysis and data fusion that can be easily adapted for specific user needs. Developed as a mission-planning, monitoring, post-processing and reporting tool, this software technology has been successfully deployed on numerous surveys, military and security operations and scientific experiments.
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July 11, 2014 – via Greensea Systems
Combined with a FOG-based INS developed by Greensea, the Balefire control system added autopilots, station keeping, dynamic positioning, autonomous control modes, path following, mission planning, and sensor fusion to the basic Falcon DR ROV system.
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October 18, 2013 – via University of Michigan
University of Michigan has developed an autonomous robot that conducts optical real-time visual mapping and inspection of a ship’s hull.
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July 23, 2013 – via Bluefin Robotics
It allows us to test the mission configuration by connecting the payload computer carrying the autonomy software to a laptop computer with a simulation environment representing realistic platform dynamics and sensory input. The autonomy software is then installed on a small platform such as the Bluefin-9 for field-testing of the autonomy at low cost before it is finally installed on the operational platform such as the Bluefin-21
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June 12, 2013 – via MIT News
Researchers are also applying their models to the dynamic control and planning of swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs. Increasingly, these robots are used to sample and monitor the ocean for pollution, marine populations, energy applications, and security and naval operations. With his students, Lermusiaux is developing mathematical models to determine the most efficient paths for robots to take, maintaining coordination among robots along the way.
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May 21, 2013 – via Metron
Metron is being awarded a contract to include in-lab integration and testing of autonomy and mission planning software with bench test hardware selected for deployment on the LDUUV.
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May 3, 2013 – via Office of Naval Research
The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) software can be added to any unmanned system to enable it to communicate and work with any other. It will run on any type of platform or hardware, and it can overlay existing systems running on propriety software to make them work with any others.
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December 27, 2012 – via Wired
SAIC is designing the ACTUV to be way more autonomous than contemporary drone aircraft: After a sailor powers it up and helps guide it out of port, she can go on a long vacation while the ACTUV speeds out to the open water to use its long-range acquisition sonar and other advanced sensors to scan for submarines, while automatically steering clear of any nearby surface ships.
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December 22, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
CDL Systems has developed an open, standards-based, and commercial off-the-shelf software product that has been integrated into unmanned vehicle platforms. The company’s products are designed on interoperable and open architecture systems to support government and civil applications.
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December 20, 2012 – via Bluefin Robotics
The collaboration is aimed at equipping Bluefin’s 21-inch AUV platforms with SeeTrack AutoTracker. SeeTrack AutoTracker was developed to enable AUVs to perform export pipeline inspections using on-board payload sensors to detect pipelines and automatically adjust the vehicle’s trajectory to optimally track the pipeline.
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November 26, 2012 – via Stanford University
Engineers at Stanford’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once too risky for these robotic explorers.
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July 17, 2012 – via MIT
Algorithms enable robot to navigate and view propellers and other complex structures.
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March 14, 2012 – via Rutgers University
The ability to monitor distribution and movement of mobile marine animals at the level of the individual is critical for understanding of population structure and habitat use.
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March 8, 2012 – via MIT
New methods and software developed at MIT can predict optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles.
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January 18, 2012 – via Georgia Tech
“The main novelty of the research was in our use of a technique called ‘automatic control,’” Malisoff says. “The robot is able to sense where it is.”
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December 6, 2011 – via Carnegie Mellon University
Approach mimics human ability to match images across domains
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August 9, 2011 – via ASTM
Committee F41 is focused on the development of standards and guidance materials for unmanned undersea vehicle systems and unmanned surface vehicle systems to facilitate an interoperable, modular and multifunctional family of platforms.
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July 18, 2011 – via Spatial Integrated Solutions
The award builds on SIS’s successful development to date of a fully autonomous maritime navigation and control system (Autonomous Maritime Navigation (AMN)).
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July 15, 2011 – via Bluefin Robotics
“This demonstration supports our objective to create a hybrid network of AUVs and autonomous surface craft for adaptive and collaborative ocean sensing and monitoring without continuous communication with the operators.
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July 11, 2011 – via SeeByte
BAE Systems Mission Systems and SeeByte have identified a shared vision for the managed introduction of autonomous computing into future military mission systems through the exploitation of ‘open’ or modular, yet secure, architectures. Thus they intend to work together to develop fully integrated MCM mission systems offering innovative, flexible and adaptable solutions for the adoption of unmanned systems into future MCM operations.
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June 22, 2011 – via OpenJAUS
OpenJAUS, LLC announced that their latest robotics software development kit, OpenJAUS 4.0, has been publicly released. Their new software library implements the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) as developed by SAE’s unmanned systems committee (AS-4).
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April 5, 2011 – via Information Week
The Navy will eventually use the software, but its available now in the Dangerous Waters computer game as well as a free online download.
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February 22, 2011 – via ars technica
What drives groups of individual animals to act in a coherent manner? Everyone has seen the oddly coordinated behavior exhibited by flocks of birds or schools of fish as they turn, sweep, and rotate seemingly as one. But how does a group of individuals make decisions about how to move and where to go at once? Do they follow some prescribed and describable mathematical behavior?
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September 19, 2010 – via Military Aerospace
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NavAir) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are surveying industry for companies able to design and build a common control station for all unmanned vehicles operating on the ground, at sea, and in the air. This common control system (CCS) should be able to perform vehicle command and control, payload command and control, mission planning, and data dissemination across all domains — land, sea, undersea, and air.
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July 8, 2010 – via The Engineer
Researchers involved in the GREX project aim to develop new technology that will allow autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to work together as a team, meaning that it will be possible to inspect more vital deep-sea oil drilling infrastructure at greater speed.
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